It was built under the philosophy that instead of hoping bad things never happen, they should be forced to happen often so that one is better prepared for them. ChaosChimp can be useful for live performance trainning or for sequencer developers, to simulate naughty or misbehaving plugins.

At the top of the plugin are buttons to disable or enable the following types of chaos:

Audio dropouts

Hogging a ton of CPU

Try to crash the host (disabled by default)

Simulate feedback (disabled by default). In actuality, this scenario will play a burst of white noise, as real feedback is quite harsh on loudspeakers (and ears).

Leak lots of memory

ChaosChimp will run the scenarios at random intervals according to the values set by the three knobs:

Probability: Determines the likelihood that one of the selected chaos scenarios will be run.

Duration: How long the chaos scenario will last (in seconds).

Cooldown: How long to wait before running a new scenario after one has just occurred. Note that since the scenarios are run at random intervals, this value only guarantees the minimum amount of chaos-free time after a scenario has been run.

For best results, place it on your master output channel and tweak the settings before playing anything.

This is funny, I can see the use for some productions, band and such. As for me, I have experienced everything on this and a hundred times more being a live gigging band, it doesnt simulate forgetting hardware chords, device and being on TIME at venues haha. If that could be invented I would love to download it...perhaps the developer designs a notepad VST plugin that can list all the stuff a musician needs to pack in the box, car-like a check list that you have to press a button in order to mark off that they packed it, because that has always been a issue for bands going to play shows. Fortunately from the older days where I had to bring the entire studio to play a 30 minute set-midi pulled from the synths banks not from hard drive, I had to have ten synths every kind of hardware one could imagine, now its all just plug and play from a small number of midi controllers - don't need but only a small tech center on stage, just with my computer alone I can blow the doors off any keyboard electronic band from back in the early 90's - I have almost no set backs on stage, everything comes off with out a hitch. In my DAW software I have a play list so i just load it with the songs and then push play, I have a few boards that I sort of just add lib stuff on stage for the show of me doing something...a HUGE benefit for electronic music, for some this would sound like cheating, but for me, that I have been on stage hundreds and hundreds of times, this technology is a god send, there is nothing more nerve wracking than something FKing up in a performance. I could have the worst cold or throat condition - I could lip sync the whole thing- some say shame on you...but i think why ruin my reputation and chart listing by cancelling a show?????

Just be careful with it because it can crash background processes. The Eat Memory locked up the DAW I was using and ChaosChimp along with it, so it would not release the memory. With the computer stuck in Chaos mode I could only kill the DAW and Chaos Chimp along with it (I had to kill an ilbridge process separately) to get everything running again. So, just be careful using this. It's serious, not a toy.